USF High Cost obligations in South Carolina

South Carolina joined to CFDA 32.002

CFDA 32.002 is titled UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - HIGH COST. Crossed with South Carolina place of performance, obligations sum to $494,038,719.38 on 31 awards. The national 32.002 hub includes other states. South Carolina’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $494,038,719.38 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of rural exchanges in the Upstate.

Thirty-one awards is a carrier-support pattern: High Cost USF often posts as several dozen discrete records rather than one statewide block. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $494,038,719.38, 31 awards, SC, and 32.002. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep USF High Cost and South Carolina together when reading $494,038,719.38.

32.002 is not Lifeline in South Carolina

Lifeline and E-Rate use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those series into $494,038,719.38 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: South Carolina, CFDA 32.002, $494,038,719.38, 31 awards. Carrier names, study-area codes, and subscriber counts are unpublished.

The catalog title names Universal Service Fund High Cost, not a ranking of carriers. Dividing $494,038,719.38 by 31 yields about $15.94 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 31 is not a carrier or subscriber census.

South Carolina geography on the High Cost tag

SC is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Columbia, Charleston, Greenville, or other in-state sites can share the tag. Awards coded to North Carolina or Georgia stay outside $494,038,719.38 even when activity later crosses those lines. The code does not convert $494.04 million into a coverage map.

South Carolina federal spending is the all-program parent. 32.002 is one row on South Carolina programs. $494.04 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Universal Service Fund - High Cost in South Carolina for the filtered table, CFDA 32.002 for the catalog without a South Carolina filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $494,038,719.38.

Reading 31 awards under $494.04 million

$494,038,719.38 ÷ 31 is about $15.94 million per award. That average is a high-cost support scale, not a per-line rebate, not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 31 as a record count, not as 31 carriers.

Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 31 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $494,038,719.38 without changing the join key of 32.002 and SC. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $494,038,719.38 is the net total supplied in the facts.

What the 32.002–South Carolina pair does not prove

A large 32.002 total tagged to South Carolina does not measure whether broadband coverage expanded, and it does not equal miles of fiber built. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $494,038,719.38 on 31 awards for USF High Cost in South Carolina.

Keep both sides of the join: Universal Service Fund - High Cost and South Carolina, obligations only. Do not annualize $494,038,719.38 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 31 as a carrier or subscriber census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a rural-broadband story. Cite USF High Cost together with South Carolina whenever you reuse $494,038,719.38.

Using the USF High Cost–South Carolina overlay

The overlay target is the South Carolina × CFDA 32.002 table. Open Universal Service Fund - High Cost in South Carolina when you want the same $494,038,719.38 / 31-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 32.002 drops the South Carolina filter. South Carolina federal spending drops the CFDA filter. South Carolina programs lists other catalogs beside 32.002. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that South Carolina won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 32.002 plus SC. Obligations of $494,038,719.38 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 32.002 × SC pair.

Questions

How much USF High Cost support is obligated in South Carolina?

USAspending records $494,038,719.38 in CFDA 32.002 obligations with South Carolina place of performance on 31 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Universal Service Fund - High Cost and South Carolina together when citing $494,038,719.38.

Does 31 awards mean 31 South Carolina carriers?

31 is a USAspending award-record count, not a carrier or subscriber census. The implied mean is about $15.94 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 31 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this South Carolina’s total federal telecom spending?

No. This join is CFDA 32.002 only. Lifeline, E-Rate, and other catalogs appear on separate South Carolina program pages. Nationwide 32.002 is not limited to South Carolina. Obligations of $494,038,719.38 are not outlays. The overlay is the live USF High Cost–South Carolina table.

Do these obligations equal fiber already built?

No. $494,038,719.38 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 32.002 × SC pair.